Women at the Aldermaston peace camp outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment welcome the introduction of female underwear for Swiss female armed forces recruits (Report, 31 March). They hope that the British defence review and the Ministry of Defence’s climate change and sustainability review will retrospectively copy the Swiss, inculcating a more female, peaceful and caring element into the British armed forces.
Ailsa Johnson
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
• Can’t wait for the Festival of Brexit (Report, 24 March). For the location, I suggest the new Kent lorry park, with a parade of HGVs carrying rotting fish and meat banned from the EU, while the prime minister dangles from a zipwire waving his flags.
Derek Robinson
Derbyshire
• Your article (Lost to the virus, 30 March) says: “His father was a telecoms engineer; his mother didn’t work.” Instead of describing women who stay at home to bring up families as “not working”, could you at least say that they didn’t take on paid employment outside the home? All mothers work!
Sue Loewenbein
Ely, Cambridgeshire
• Mercurial rise and Arcurial fall for Boris Johnson (PM has ‘no case to answer’ over Jennifer Arcuri allegations, says No 10, 29 March)?
Christopher Punt
Barnstaple, Devon
• In the garden on Monday we were delighted to see our first human of the spring – three months later than last year (Letters, 31 March).
David Ayling
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
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